· 3/17/1958
Ferguson v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.
Citations
- 356 U.S. 41
- 78 S. Ct. 671
- 2 L. Ed. 2d 571
- 1958 U.S. LEXIS 1353
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- “[The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure] ... require [only] a short and plain statement of the claim that will give the defendant fair notice of what the plaintiffs claim is and the grounds upon which it rests.”
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Judges: Whittaker
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